Camel Caravan Photo

Photographer’s Note

Driving back to Adis Abeba from Harar we stumbled upon these Afar kids who were hereding a very large troup of camels to who knows where.

I had never seen so many camels together in my life.

It is a common sight in Ethiopia to see children taking care of the animals. As a matter of fact, it seems that kids take care of the animals while parents take care of the fields, although in this case the afars are nomadic.

tigra, Photo65Net, m_s_s, sam224, Wanda1, gabrielpat, Flavia, ChrisJ has marked this note useful

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Photo65Net (43084) 2006-10-10 13:52

Hi Daniel,
Again you did great job bringing us a magnificent life scene.
Colours and contrast are very good, and framing impressively good.
Great job,
JB.

tigra (2966) 2006-10-10 13:52

Hello Daniel,
Interesting shot!
The picture is enough sharp and well composed.
Katia

m_s_s (1649) 2006-10-10 13:58

Hello Daniel.
Great shot, simply amazing. i like the way how you presented peoples in their natural place and in everyday live. good work. quality and colours are amazing. are you sure it was 350D and Sigma 18-200 f3.5-6.3? i'm interested in buying this lens. i can see you can make a good use of it?
great work again,
regards.

pat0500 (21505) 2006-10-10 14:05

Bonsoir Daniel,
Comme je dis souvent, certains poste des belles images et d'autres des moins jolie mais peut être plus intèressant..!
Le tout fait de TE le plus grand album photo au monde...pour le plaisir de tout le monde. Très belle photo ici encore comme l'ensemble de ta galerie d'ailleurs. Bravo et merci à toi.
Bonne soirée,
Patrick

gigi (2668) 2006-10-10 14:11

bonjour Daniel
c'est super
merci de nous montré une autre realité
jean louis

AmiBe (6042) 2006-10-10 14:53

Hello Daniel,
belle photo, très beaux tons bruns.
La caravane est impressionnante, un chameau semble content d'avoir trouvé un peu de verdure.
a+

scalerman (25607) 2006-10-10 15:13

Again, just great. This one is so sharp, and it's a great scene. The ground surrounding looks volcanic.

Wanda1 (10854) 2006-10-10 15:16

Hi Daniel,
A fantastic shot of this daily life scene. Nice and clear , well composed, and overall great.
Regards
Wanda

ndb1958 (9228) 2006-10-10 15:41

Hi Daniel,
these camels look so small ... and so many of them, indeed.
Nice shot of the two youngshepherd-boys.
Nice composition and format.
Nino

gabrielpat (6479) 2006-10-10 15:50

hi Daniel,
nice shot of those young camels,a very nice color "brown"dominates. nice position of the 2 boys.

Flavia (10202) 2006-10-10 18:14

Hi Daniel,

Fantastic picture! It shows a lot of this place. The landscape seems to be very nice. The composition placing the 2 kids on the right and showing all the camels is very well done.

Regards,

Flavia

ChrisJ (69430) 2006-10-11 0:14

Bonjour daniel

Wow. That's a lot of camels! Good use of repetition & a wide angled panoramic format. Merci!

barrufeto_77 (25593) 2006-10-11 1:01

Hola Daniel.

Bonito el hecho de sacar los camellos justo al lado de la carretera.

Todos cuando pensamos en camellos lo hacemos en el desierto evidentemente.

ME gusta la idea.

Un saludo, Oscar

jinju (14265) 2006-10-11 4:31

I can see why you are interested in a book. Its actually a good idea as your Ethiopia photos are really good Daniel. When you have one made, I would print up a couple dozen extra copies and pitch the idea to someone to get it published. The shots are strong Daniel, really strong. This one is beautoful. The road is a good element in here, showing the new age of trasnportation, yet at the same time it is so empty, and the old ay dominates. I think this says something about the way Africa clings to its traditions and past in so many ways.

efigesta (12181) 2006-10-11 5:26

Hola Daniel
mas una foto interessante del dia a dia, buenas colores
saludos
manuel

ktanska (16375) 2006-10-11 5:45

Hi Daniel,
It's a big herd, I wonder if their family is rich, relatively speaking. Good colours and contrast. Panorama works well. Scenes like that make nice memories.
Kari

feather (49848) 2006-10-11 7:40

Very interesting shot as all your images from this less visited location. The number of camels is indeed amazing. Good shot.
Kath

delkoo (33894) 2006-10-11 8:18

hi daniel,
j'aime bien les teintes si particulieres a l'Ethiopie, c'est le quotidien de ces nomades de suivre leur troupeau.

didier

sam224 (5851) 2006-10-11 13:39

Excellent shot indeed. Good composition with the herd of camels along the road managed by the two young boys. Good colours and definition.
Thanks for sharing

umbrellaphotos (1901) 2006-10-13 12:55

Daniel,
Pretty cool shot here. All of your stuff is very interesting and captures the essence of that location well. This particular shot is well composed and metered very well. Nicely seen and captured,

Brian

rosaline (0) 2006-10-29 13:46

Hi Daniel
This is a great shot. The narrative is well captured here with the boys leading the caravan of camels. The pov and composition is particularly good here and gives nice depth. Good exposure and light conrol. Nice shot.
Aubrey

arnabchat (6982) 2006-11-17 0:13

aha! this one is really nice. a great document of a lifestyle unchanged since long time. must be a hazard crossing the highway if there been good traffic.
TFS, Arnab